Demotic Grammar in the Ptolemaic Sacerdotal Decrees
by R.S. Simpson
Hardback (Out of print)
(December 1996)
ISBN: 9780900416651
Price: $92.00
On back order
This is the first full analysis of the grammar of demotic Egypt as found in the Canopus decree of 238 BC, the Raphia decree of 217 BC, the Memphis (Rosetta) decree of 196 BC and the two Philae decrees of 186 and 184 BC. These texts, which have been famous since the discovery of the Rosetta stone, were promulgated in Egyptian and Greek by annual synods of the Egyptian priesthood, and were intended to express gratitude for royal patronage and to regulate the royal temple cults. This study which presupposes no specialist knowledge of demotic, aims to use the decrees to advance understanding of linguistic constructions and idenitify peculiarities in this corpus. The book includes transcriptions and translations of all the texts on facing pages.
- By (author) R.S. Simpson
Other Titles in this Series
Principles of Egyptian Art
Edited by Emma Brunner-Traut, Translated and Edited by John Baines with a Foreword by E.H. Gombrich
Studies in Egyptian Syntax
Second Edition including Previously Unpublished Chapters Edited by R.S. Simpson
Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. Volume III: Memphis. Part II: Saqqâra to Dahshûr
Second Edition, Revised and Augmented
A Citizen of Nowhere
Jaroslav Cerny, Egyptologist (1898-1970): A Journey through the Twentieth Century
Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings. Volume VIII: Objects of Provenance Not Known. Part III: Stelae (Early Dynastic Period to Dynasty XVII)
Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. Volume I: The Theban Necropolis. Part I: Private Tombs
Second Edition, Revised and Augmented
Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings IV
Lower and Middle Egypt
Volume 4, 4
Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. Volume III: Memphis. Part I: Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr
Second Edition, Revised and Augmented
Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. Volume II: Theban Temples
Second Edition, Revised and Augmented
Volume 2
Similar Books
Archaeological Discoveries at the Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos
Vol. 2: Old Kingdom Wall, Papyri, Ostraca, and Leather Remains
Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries
Highlights from the first century of the Egypt Exploration Society
Volume 8
Archaeological Discoveries at the Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos
Vol. 1: Magazines, Animal Burials, and Miscellanea
Current Research in Egyptology 2024
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Symposium, Jointly Organised by the University of Liverpool, Swansea University, University of Birmingham, University of Oxford, and University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2–6 September 2024
From Egypt to the Levant and Beyond
African Individuals and Groupsain Cuneiform Texts from the Late Bronze Age
Volume 133
Kom al-Ahmer — Kom Wasit III
The Archaeology of Two Ptolemaic Districts in the Western Nile Delta, Egypt
Language, Semantics, and Cognition in Ancient Egypt and Beyond
Proceedings of the International Conference, Yale University, April 16-18, 2021
Volume 14
Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Images from the Levant to Mesopotamia
Studies Offered to Tallay Ornan
Outward Appearance versus Inward Significance
Addressing Identities through Attire in the Ancient World
Volume 15
Sacredness at Deir El-Medina
Proceedings of the International Conference Florence, Italy 14-15 March 2024
Volume 7
The Village Gymnasium at Philoteris/Watfa in the Fayum
In Collaboration with Rita Hartmann. With Contributions by Cäcilia Fluck, Mary F. Ownby and Daniela Rosenow
Volume 10
Ägypten und Levante XXXIV / Egypt and the Levant XXXIV (2024)
Internationale Zeitschrift für ägyptische Archäologie und deren Nachbargebiete / International Journal for Egyptian Archaeology and Related Disciplines
Esna VII – Übersetzung
Die Inschriften der Außenwände des Pronaos von Esna. Esna-Studien V
Volume 46
Katalog der Berufstermini der Frauen in Ägypten im Spiegel dokumentarischer Papyri und Ostraka
Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Band 480.2
Volume 480.2
Transzendentales Ägypten
Jenseits, Himmel, Hölle und das Ende in antik-ägyptischen Diskursen
Volume 14
A Master of Secrets in the Chamber of Darkness
Egyptological Studies in Honor of Robert K. Ritner Presented on the Occasion of His Sixty-Eighth Birthday
Volume 3

La lustration des offrandes (sfsf 3w(.t))